Iraq in Danger of Falling To Al-quida

[planosteve]

The insurgent fighters who routed the Iraqi army out of Mosul on Tuesday did not just capture much of Iraq’s second-largest city. They also gained a windfall of arms, munitions and equipment abandoned by the soldiers as they fled — arms that were supplied by the United States and intended to give the troops an edge over the insurgents.
The problem is not a new one, but it looms larger now that the United States is shifting its counterterrorism strategy away from using American armed forces directly, and toward relying on allied or indigenous troops and security forces supplied and trained by the United States. President Obama proposed last week that a $5 billion fund be set up to finance such efforts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/world ... .html?_r=0

[Gopher]

Was there ever any doubt this would happen when we left?

[GFB]

Good goin' Obama!

[planosteve]

Was there ever any doubt this would happen when we left?

Well, yes. Just about everyone on DD at the time. I was called a "cancerous traitor" when I argued otherwise.

[Grassman]

obama just gave em five fighters back too.

[BillB]

Bush should have left Saddam alone.
He was harmless to us, and had the brutality to hold Iraq together and keep it away from Iran as well as the Sunni radicals.

I predicted this would happen when we first went into Iraq in 2003. We would eventually leave and Iraq would fall to the strongest force of Muslin radicals.

[Grassman]

^^^ Great hindsight.

[Dennis]

Bush did not watch out border and now Obama has it wide open. Two strikes and we can not afford a third.

[BillB]

Bush did not watch out border and now Obama has it wide open. Two strikes and we can not afford a third.

What would a third strike be?
They're pouring in across the border at will, now.
How can it get any worse?